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Initially it was challenging, but at this time I think we've carved a niche where customers recognize the job we do. I think it's become a situation where we've become more flexible over the time.

Initially it was just supposed to be comedy instead of music, ... but the show has certainly evolved since 2003 and now we mix it up with some music, as well.

Initially I was kind of shocked and bewildered, and I didn't know what to do.

Initially I was treated roughly. Once they knew I was a journalist, I was treated very well.

Initially I was weary of it. When something is first done you're looking at all the things you wanted there that are not there.

initially resisted us taking on the investigation, but we overcame that. It was an important victory for our independence. This dispute has caused delay in us taking over the investigation, but we have worked hard to recover the lost ground.

initially set off by whites and later, more seriously, involved Asians.

Initially the catalyst was the Indonesia crisis, ... Everyone thought, 'emerging markets, let's get the hell out of there.' Initially, stocks fell quite aggressively, but then Russia ran into its own problems.

Initially the expectation was 50 machines a month, maybe a 100, and we don't have to work for anybody.

Initially the idea was to give the kids that go home and watch TV after school something else to do.

Initially the market thought going offshore was risky and that there were limited growth prospects in the developed world, but on closer inspection we have seen that the outlook is better than thought.

Initially the market was extremely disappointed with the figures, that is they were prepared to see much larger draws (falls), particularly in distillates.

Initially the partner is at increased risk from heart attack, suicide, and accidents. I am shocked my wife is sick and I stop paying attention when driving. And there is an increase in infections.

Initially the rain will exacerbate an already fragile situation.

Initially there was disbelief. We all get up each day assuming that everything is going to be OK. But now you are thrust into a surreal experience and you have to worry about each step that you take.

Initially there was silence in the room. We had them in a circle. When we stated the places that are included in Southwest Asia, you could hear a pin drop. There was an intense look on their faces.

Initially there will be this wave of good feeling. If it drags on, there are going to be some crimes and other things that come with new residents.

Initially they controlled the pace, but we picked it up later on. We just couldn't put one away in the end.

Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.

Initially we did not know what to expect out of him. He kind of got thrown into the fire and it is kind of hard to really see and envision what a rookie can do, because not too many rookie quarterbacks can come into the league like he did and win ball games like he did.

Initially we'd set on a process of beginning to do some segmentation.

Initially we expect more inbound customers than outbound as people come back in and participate in disaster recovery.

Initially we got some complaints. After a couple of weeks, they started to taper off. The customers have told us the most important thing to them is low air fares. Part of the way to provide low air fares is to reduce costs.

Initially we had a problem getting the word out and reaching the target market.

Initially we just wanted him to be able to get healthy. And now for him to come back and be able to pitch, that's a plus.

Initially we stuck him in there because we had run out of options. He is a big kid who has some power and we thought maybe we can find a guy to pick up some run support when they didn't want to pitch to Helton. Obviously he took that opportunity and ran with it. He is a legitimate fourth bat in the lineup. He is not just hitting behind Helton any more.

Initially we turned a little lower after the auction results, but in the end we turned a little higher. It just seems as if the market has been able to recover partially after the losses of the last two days.

Initially we were down on negative earnings news from the US, but resource stocks led a rebound, industrials and banks are still under pressure.

Initially we were worried because we didn't think the weather would clear up. It eventually cleared up enough so that we would have decent footing out here.

Initially when this all came about, I was very negative about it. I said you do more good for them broadcasting your show every night (from San Francisco) than by putting yourself in harm's way and not being here to do it. But I realized as the months went by it was going to happen. I just had to have his attitude.

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.

Initially I didn't want to do it. My girlfriend talked me into it.

Initially I'm not in favor of any tax increase.

I love travelling, but I have to admit I didn't initially take to Agra in India. As soon as you arrive, someone wants to show you around, take your bags or sell you something - and it's just a bit of a culture shock. You just have to make the necessary mental adjustment to the setting.

If lifetime income is the primary need and potential inflation protection is secondary, there's Nationwide L-Inc. If principal protection is initially more important with the opportunity to draw lifetime income later, there's CPPLI.

I moved to Los Angeles when I was 20 years old and was absolutely terrified. I grew up in a small town, so the city itself scared me. I initially did not plan on staying but fell in love with it and never went home.

I'm reserving judgment, but normally I like to put (young) guys initially at the latter part (of the lineup), a kind of coattail,

Immigration is good for the United States ... it's important for us to keep our doors open, but we need to keep an eye on the people coming in, ... While initially it will be a state problem, eventually it will be a national issue, and education is the best way to deal with it.

If unit labor costs are not increasing as much as we initially expected, that would get the Fed to pause (rate hikes) sooner than expected.

I initially became a trainer in 2002 to help people shape their bodies, to help them look the way they wanted to look. This would reflect the way I was living. I was focusing on the exterior. Then in 2003/4, I had a paradigm shift. I started a business for bariatric patients, pre- and post-gastric bypass.

I initially knew it would be a tough series; we never ran away from them in the regular season, so I don't expect to in this one.

I initially thought, like most Americans did, that they had to be extraordinary people. It seemed like such a maliciously brilliant thing that could only be achieved by maliciously brilliant people. That turned out to be the farthest thing from the truth. They were far too common. That's the really scary thing that the reporting told me.

I initially thought there was a mechanical failure or something to that effect but the guys are looking over the bike now and there doesn't seem to be anything wrong. I had hit my head pretty hard when I got thrown down.

I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.

As we've had more damage assessment, it looks like it might be more severe than initially expected. Gasoline stockpiles are still very low and heating oil and diesel may be a bit of a worry going into the winter.

Still, it would be a negative impact. But at this juncture, I think it's somewhat premature to panic about this yet. The impact, while initially startling, might not be as great if you look at the big picture.

The agreement will initially cover the market in Thailand and then expand to include pilot markets in Australia and New Zealand.

The Australian surgeon David Young feared the worst initially but after the operation he told me that my knees are stable and I can still play five to six years.

The body barely got out before dark hit. The ice initially wasn't bad to dig through, but then as they got deeper it became more difficult.

Once again, we've been turned into conspirators. We thought initially that this is a conflict that doesn't impact us because we don't have a dog in the hunt. But very quickly, we became not only the dog in the hunt, but the hunt itself.

It's safe. What you're going to be seeing initially is a lot of interest.

The Metropolitan Police Service initially resisted us taking on the investigation but we overcame that.

The judge didn't order the feds to suddenly release all sorts of classified or secret information. All the judge did was to tell the Justice Department that it has to speed up its response to a request for information about the National Security Agency program. And the information that initially will be released will be very unspecific. The big battles are yet to come over how much of this stuff eventually is made public.

The intent had been to provide them with $1 million each. There was not as much in (the budget) as initially thought. We're going to be able to correct it with a floor amendment tomorrow.

The feedback initially was very harsh. But we knew we were not going to reap immediate dividends from this name change. It's a long term venture.

That meant we were able to get on and evaluate the car properly. We initially planned to test the car for only one day but we lengthened that to the entire test, and the results were very positive.

It's dropped significantly. Initially there was some great concern about this.

It takes a lot of courage and confidence in your defense to make that call and most importantly, they executed. It looked initially like we had them stopped, but it was a great individual effort. He refused to go down, and it was a huge play in the game.

They come from China and in that culture, respect is extremely important. Initially they didn't feel that they had it from Inverness and they felt they had to earn it.

In the long run, it doesn't cost much, but it's coming up with the money initially in a system that's already strained, ... The urgency should be self-evident. ... Hopefully, it doesn't take another tragedy.

I have talked with the sheriff on several occasions in the past six months. Invariably, the subject has come up. I think the sheriff was initially leaning toward retirement.

I just liked the sound that came out of a flute. I just loved it. It just initially attracted me and then I got hooked. It is a little different for a kid that age to become hooked on the flute. It's a difficult instrument to learn, but I didn't find it as difficult as I thought it would be.

In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

Investors should keep in mind that this (auction) process will take longer than most initially expected and will by its vary nature be lumpy.

Investors initially guessed Japan's high-techs were quite independent of the U.S. market, but everyone's been quite worried since there have been so many profit warnings.

I'll say initially acting was my first love, and that's what I pursued. But then, so far as even my first day on a film set, and just watching how things were set up, I just said, 'I think I want to be in charge.' I am very much type-A. I am a bit of a control freak.

Chances that there will be a second round initially seemed weak but are getting better and better.

Because novel ideas, inventions and brand names are initially embodied in IPR, they are later put into mass production and markets with further research opportunities.

Hopefully, I think on Sri Lankan wickets we might have a slight chance of upsetting England. The guys are very keen. Initially bowling and fielding were our strong points, but the batting has got going. We have a balanced side. I will be happy if we can get to the last eight.

He's a master of that minimal thing, ... Which is kind of odd for someone initially known for painting in broad comedic strokes. And then to see him work with a tiny, fine, one-haired brush like that, you know? He's really pretty amazing. He can go either way, as far as you want him to.

There was a period of sort of minor deception. Then the book seemed to be being advertised initially as the official history, and I did object to him saying that.

The yield initially knee-jerked lower on the weak durable goods data and the Saudi news.

It looked a lot worse than it was. Al is going to be released. He has vision and it's going to be day-by-day prognosis now. But it's much, much better than we initially anticipated.

The broadcasters were initially slow to sign up, but now they are on board with it. Now the problem is with the consumer electronics industry. Polk and Boston Acoustics have HD receivers in the market, but they are not yet available in volume. There was precious little over the last holiday season in the retail market.

The drums are where we initially placed them and have not leaked into the soil.

The dollar could initially slide after the rate rises end.

The dollar is weaker initially across the board after the release of the minutes. On your first read through you get the indication they may not be as aggressive as some had been predicting.

The historical pattern is for shocks of this nature to initially be absorbed roughly equally between lower savings and lower purchases for other goods and services.

The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

The typical Western is kind of a good-guy/bad-guy thing, and that's great, but initially when I heard about 'Into the West,' and what I love about it is it delves into both sides of our cultural past, and it puts more of a human face on the Native Americans.

The majority of comic book villains are pure evil, but Curt Connors is an exception. Curt Connors is a good man who initially wants to save the world, but he gets hungry and greedy and reckless, and he pays the price for that.

Although Circuit City's first-quarter sales slightly exceeded expectations, we anticipate that the merchandise sales mix will result in lower overall gross profit margins than we initially estimated.

The doctor initially told me it was a sprain so I kept playing.

The carriers were initially against this system. But there has been an education process for them--it is a money-saving proposition for the consumer and the cellular service provider. Now they want to test the waters.

The first spring, William was with us at home. We were able to participate in the Great Walk and we initially just went as a small family,

The competitive factors that initially compelled us to establish a separately traded class of common stock tied to our Internet operations have fundamentally changed.

You can only imagine what went through this gentleman's mind. Initially he was skeptical. After I was able to meet him in person, I think he realized we were for real.

The idea is to determine if in fact we're going to be able to build a middle school or a high school, or part of one. Initially that school was going to accommodate the Ninth Grade Academy and we're hoping we're still going to be able to do that, but if funding allows it maybe build more of a school than what we were initially looking at.

You could say China is actually 20 percent richer than anybody initially thought.

The two things which initially the market was looking at are pretty unchanged -- the two things that have been moving the market all year. One is the oil price and the other thing which has made the market frothy of late is the continued mergers and acquisitions speculation.

It's not unusual for tires to experience some cosmetic cracking, and that is what we initially saw in this situation, ... As it became apparent that this was a unique circumstance, we decided a recall was the best course of action. With the design specification change, we believe we have taken the necessary steps to make sure this issue has been resolved.

It is time to say good-bye to an initially intended transition to a more flexible collective bargaining system and a reduction of non-wage costs for employers.

There's anecdotal evidence that individual investors are looking more towards the equity market than real estate. It's a good sign initially that there's new demand, but it could suggest we're at the final stages of the advance.

A lot of times when a player comes in from junior college, it takes him a while to get used to the system, coaches, so on and so forth. Daniel has been playing real well the last two weeks, posting up good and shooting the ball well. We decided today, 'You know what, let's got to him and see what he does.' We went to him initially and he responded. So, we went to him for the rest of the game.

They had anticipated this transaction when they initially purchased shares of KTM in August. KTM recently increased its outstanding capital stock as part of a transaction that resulted in it acquiring the interests of a minority shareholder in one of its subsidiaries. The purpose of the additional share purchase announced today is to maintain Polaris' 24.9% interest in the capital stock of KTM,

There's a concern that there aren't enough people at the top to fill in for people leaving. They're not one of the ones that would come to mind initially when thinking of companies with a deep bench.

There were some mixed feelings about it initially because of the sensitivity of the topic.

There was this framing initially that boys were in trouble and all of girls' problems are solved. We did not want to exclude the possibility that there were groups of girls that also needed additional supports in order to be successful in school.

It seems like it has spread much more widely in animals and in more districts that was initially thought.

We initially feared we would be seen as a little elitist. But we haven't seen that in the people who come. I continue to be overwhelmed by the number of people who come out who aren't horse people.